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Displaying items by tag: SQL

This is becoming something of a broken record.  Did any part of Sony have a clue about protecting their on-line assets?

Published in Security

A new SQL injection attack has compromised tens of thousands of URLs according to a security vendor. The attack was initially used to push rogue AV malware.

Published in Security
Tuesday, 15 February 2011 12:17

Lush Cosmetics Australian website hacked

The Australian and New Zealand shopping site of cosmetics retailer Lush has been hacked just weeks after a similar breach occurred on the UK site.  Credit card details and other intimate information of shoppers have been exposed.

Published in Security

Unlike Microsoft Windows, Linux has a deserved reputation as a bullet-proof operating system. To teach computer security a University lecturer has deliberately produced the most damn vulnerable Linux you'll ever see.

 

Published in The Linux Distillery

Unlike Microsoft Windows, Linux has a deserved reputation as a bullet-proof operating system. To teach computer security a University lecturer has deliberately produced the most damn vulnerable Linux you'll ever see.

 

Published in The Linux Distillery

Excel Software is shipping MacTranslator 2.1 for Mac OS X and WinTranslator 3.2 for Windows to generate design diagrams from source code. REALbasic, Objective-C 2.0 and Java generics are now supported.

Friday, 26 February 2010 11:16

Using database triggers for alerting and auditing

Whether an enterprise application is custom-built or purchased off-the-shelf, you can always delve under the hood into the database layer to add your own specific functionality, like alerting and auditing when data is modified.

Published in Security
Thursday, 26 November 2009 16:13

Netspeed's website hacked (correction)

Netspeed website has been corrupted by hackers using SQL injection techniques.

Published in Security
Tuesday, 17 November 2009 05:04

Yahoo! jobs site open to attack

A SQL injection vulnerability left the Yahoo! jobs site open to attack for an unknown length of time.

Published in Home Tech
Liberal US shock-blog Daily Kos gained legal access to the database used by electronic voting machines produced by Sequoia Voting Systems. The Daily Kos sensationally claimed the database violated Federal voting law. A closer examination gives a different story.

Published in The Linux Distillery
Wednesday, 14 October 2009 05:33

October Patch Tuesday is biggest ever

As expected, Microsoft released 13 new security bulletins overnight (Australian time). A mammoth 34 vulnerabilities are addressed, including some affecting Windows 7.

Published in Security
Monday, 11 May 2009 13:09

Not all databases are created equal

Software companies hurt their products by writing database engines when they’re not a database company, and by marketing teams who don’t understand why the database is important.

Published in Development
Ever since the unexpected advent of netbooks – who would have expected low-powered computing to be such a winner – Microsoft has been working to push Linux out. Unlike Vista, Windows 7 will run effectively on a netbook. However, Microsoft have reminded us they’re a proprietary company with the offensive Windows 7 Starter Edition being limited to three apps only. Are they trying to insult us or what?

Microsoft announces an update to SQL Server 2008 as a freely downloadable service pack, which is probably just as well as there is not a lot to get excited about.

Wednesday, 11 February 2009 01:45

Microsoft's critical patches for servers and desktops

This month's security bulletins from Microsoft are evenly balanced between servers and desktops. There are two critical and two important bulletins.

Published in Market
Monday, 09 February 2009 16:34

Kaspersky patch own back yard, but delude self

Technology security firm Kaspersky suffered egg on its face this weekend after a hacker posted details, including screenshots, of a successful SQL injection attack on the firm's web site. Kaspersky have released an official statement which suffers from an amazing dose of reality denial.

Published in Market
Kaspersky is a leading security and anti-virus software company. Yet, this weekend a poster on the hackersblog.org forum demonstrated Kaspersky's web site was vulnerable to exploitation by one of the surely most publicised methods available – SQL injection. Pictures included!
Published in Market
Thursday, 13 November 2008 18:42

A real-world web site crack before your eyes

15 years ago Dan Farmer wrote a program called SATAN designed to help sysadminis detect vulnerabilities in their networks. He was criticised because of the massive potential for malice if used by "the wrong people" and was fired by his employer, SGI. Now, I'm not in Farmer's league but I'm going to risk my reputation here and now to practically explain SQL injection by cracking two publicly available web sites.

Published in The Linux Distillery
Wednesday, 29 October 2008 18:06

MYOB makes the move to SQL Server, .NET

MYOB - "Mind Your Own Business" - is one of Australia's best known financial management software for small businesses. After 17 years its platform is being re-engineered using leading edge Microsoft technologies.

Published in Strategy
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